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My lab is on a VLAN. If the machines are connected to the VLAN they can connect to the Internet. If not they can't. Installing the VLAN package enables network connectivity. However, I don't know how ...

I would like to find all possible reverse dependencies (no need for recursive reverse dependencies) of a certain package p, that is, I want to find all packages which depend on p. This shall include ...

I'm trying to install a software package which depends on gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0. However, when I attempt to install gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 I get the following message:
sudo apt-get install ...

I'm attempting to install logitechmediaserver 7.8.0 on my OSMC (Raspbmc) Raspberry Pi. I primarily followed instructions from here, although some of the install did not work (some dependencies missing ...

In the absence of internet connection for the present, I am trying to use apt-offline. When I execute the order in terminal I get "ERROR: FATAL: Something is wrong with the apt system." I have been ...

As you can see below, I installed (and then deleted) gnome-bluetooth on my Debian Xfce desktop. It's come with a lot of librairies and autoremove doesn't get rid of them.
Is there an automatic way to ...

i have a Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca - Release amd64 20141126]/ trusty contrib main non-free installed, and the apt-get install wine wont do the trick. it returns the following:
Some packages could not ...

I'm triying to install VNC Server in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5. I have the .rpm of VNC Server, but it has a depedency with xterm, which I have the .rpm too. Trying to install xterm ...

I am trying to install grive in my CentOS server. The rpm available is:
grive-0.3.0-1.el6.xz.x86_64.rpm
The problem is that the rpm seems to be tied to json-c version 0.11 but the one I really need ...

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 on my old desktop pc. Since I moved, I had no internet connection, but could use the WLAN of my neighbors. For that, I had to install an old FRITZ! USB WLAN driver. I did ...

I'm trying to get all the dependencies for a package..for example apache2
I've tried to use apt-cache depends apache2 but it gives some dependencies but when I want to install apache2 on a live CD it ...

I was going through the dependencies of some packages with apt-cache depends and found, that the libc6 package depends on libgcc1, which in turn depends on gcc-4.9-base.
Shouldn't such a fundamental ...

I am scripting the creation of chroot jails and part of that automation includes copying various executables and their dependencies into the jail. I am using the following bash line to parse the file ...

I'm trying to install packages with having as little files from their dependencies as possible, since system size is important to me.
For example, when wanting to install a package, I could install ...

I've installed the program Motion on one Linux machine (M1) and want the same program on another (M2).
There are various builds of this program, and I have forgotten which one I have used, so can I ...

I'm trying to clean out some unneeded packages from one of my gentoo boxes with emerge --depclean, and I thought I had a few perl modules installed that none of my wanted packages should require.
So, ...